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About the Bagatelle Museum

Welcome to the Bagatelle Museum! We're an on-line museum of shopping bags, exceptional business cards, boxes, and other fun ephemera from global retailers. The collection includes pieces from the 1800s all the way up to the present; from the Ukraine to the U.S.; from the ridiculous to the sublime. We'll be posting something new every few days so be sure to check back in to see what new treasures we've acquired.

Our goal is to celebrate the beauty in the ordinary and the value in the disposable.

Press for the Bagatelle Museum

Jullien Cornic - Paris, 1992

It's certainly not elaborate, but I've always thought this was one of the most stunning business cards. The lettering always reminded me of something Aubrey Beardsley or Edward Gorey might have come up with.

Incidentally, did you know that Edward Gorey loved the Mary Tyler Moore show? Somehow that seems as incongruous and strangely refreshing as if Marilyn Manson were a devotee of Gimme a Break.